Hey Tony, I'm game for Sunday, Erik has been talking about coming out to the course too, got to get some practice in for the Ice Bowls....1P.M. Mt. Airy sounds good to me, let me know if you're ago-Andrew Miller

I thought I was. I just got a call from my brother this morning, he has two tickets to todays Bungals game. Although they may lose, it will still be a fun time down at the field. I will miss the round today, but I look forward to meeting up later and playing a round.

Sunday December 28th at Ferry Park in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. If you need a place to stay I have room at my condo in Destin, Florida. I'll be setting up my temp baskets on the pitch & Putt course at the condo the rest of the week with the average hole of 65 yards, strategically placed palm trees and near the sand trap berms for easy rollaways. If warm enough I'll set up a few 3 mile long Big D bombs on the sugar white beaches and show off to the old folks.

The Story of the Big Fish & The Small Pond: More like the little fish in a mud hole but I digress. I came to a city that has just embraced Disc Golf with love, respect and simple awe. Where the course is barely in the ground and you see fathers playing with teenage sons, where middle aged couples have 5 discs each and hold hands between holes, where kids on the play grounds of seemingly too close design to the golf holds move to the side when they see you approach and watch you tee off, where people on winding walking paths smile and wave you on and comment on your shot. I'm at a loss for words. I'm at a course that is designed so poorly in the fact that it has tees pointing toward play ground equipment, almost every shot is over a walking path...a busy walking path, and many errant shots go over fences of neighboring yards...where the 80 yr old woman will retrieve your disc for you and ask how your game is going....all these negatives and the park is an almost bewildering blissness of unadulterated Disc Golf love. In surfing terms you have the 'shedders' and the 'soul surfers'...and this my friend is a Disc Golf park full of 'Soul Discers'.

I've had to keep my mouth shut many a time. The first round I found some local guys and had them show me their course. They play every single day...sometimes 7-8 rounds a day for the last 6 months. At first I thought they were being sarcastic..but I quickly learned that with no local pros in the area...I was the best they've seen. Here I was angry that I shot a -3 at a Woodland Mound difficulty course...I took a 5 and two 4's on some idiotic throws....and I equaled their best scores...with their foot wedges...with their falling putts..and me being militant about my own form. The crowds...the WOWS...the AHHSSSS!....the people watching me throw a Challenger a mere 217 feet for a park job on a tight wooded fairway. The stunned faces when I take a Buzzz up the middle for a bounce off the cage on a 260 ft straight ace run. The full pull of 336 ft park job on their longest hole...down wind with an XL. Just for giggles I parked a 309ft hole with a forehand roller and even showed them a backhand roller on the same hole. They got to see a thumber, tommy, and even an overhand pancake when I was tail deep to an elephant in the thick stuff. Second round a -7 and I was still reflecting my anger inward and smiling to the folks on the outside. Every hole is Deuceable. I have a -10 or a -11 in me before this trip is done. Next trip...I bring one of you guys down to really show them how this game can be played.

That could have easily been the coldest I've ever been playing Disc Golf. Sure..I've played in colder temps..and I've played in the snow...and I've played in the wind...but the combination we had tonight was just down right icetesticles. I feel sorry for my partner Colin. I opened some hand warmers..and they simply never warmed up...ever. They must have been punctured before and ran out of heat last week. To not be able to grip a disc in 20F temps with the wind screaming the way it was those last holes...It was just crazy. I did have fun though.

As you have seen, Andrew, my upshots and putting just plain suck. I have a real accuracy and judging distance problem on 100'ish shots; the ones that are too far to putt, but not far enough for a full throw. I will be way off on my upshot, leave myself a long putt, pitch it over the top of the basket, then doink it off the front on my second putt.

I think I'm going to become a dedicated forehand approacher. I can't do short backhands.

I work 7pm to 7am...I'll for sure be there Thursday...the weather should be nice...I may be there Wednesday and Friday as well...I tend to sleep until noon or 1pm...so I can meet you out there after your second round...I usually only do one and a half rounds there.

I'll probably go Thrusday then if I can. If you happen to find a light blue teebird in the shule about pin high on the left side of hole 13, it was mine. I don't know why I couldn't find it. I looked until it got dark.

Oh, and I've got to watch those OB roads. I think I threw on or over every one of them today while I was there. I think I'll just idiot proof it and throw my predator on all the OB on the right holes.

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